Saturday 20 July 2024, 7.30pm
The great electronic music pioneer, Moritz von Oswald, presents his choral-music-inspired album, Silencio, which draws on the ensemble works of long-standing inspirations Edgard Varèse, György Ligeti and Iannis Xenakis, to create a deeply textured collection that shifts between light & ethereal and dark & dissonant to stunning effect.
As masterfully demonstrated in early works of von Oswald together with Mark Ernestus' influential Basic Channel project, repetition and reduction are key elements here, much in the tradition of techno and minimalism. The vast dynamism of the human voice adds to the profound weight of electronics while offering up a rhythmic source and sonic noise palette unexplored in von Oswald’s repertoire. In Silencio, von Oswald dredges a dank murk, pulling clouds over a distant pulse. It hangs, ready to take on new forms.
"Moritz von Oswald's latest solo album is his most startling, time-bending material since the Basic Channel days, a collaboration with a 16-voice choir that refracts techno and choral music into dizzying psychedelic traces, exploiting mind-altering xenharmonic synth tones, Ligeti-like operatic phrases and abyssal kicks with a veteran's cunning. We've been knocked sideways by this one - trans-dimensional afters music at its absolute best." – Boomkat
